Annotates a number of books intended for younger, intermediate, and older readers. Reviews one book of interest to adults and one film. (FL)

Explains how a teacher attempted to mediate between her own aesthetic and that of her students while teaching them to write poetry. (JL)

Presents poetry written by children to illustrate the valuable qualities that result from children's lack of sophistication and their inherent freshness of vision. (JL)

A four-week writer-in-residence program designed to stimulate the creativity of K-5 students was held in the Briar Glen Library Media Center, Wheaton, Illinois, with poet Joan Colby. This description of the program includes information on planning, funding, and future plans. (CHC)

Lists Hispanic-American legends, poetry, short stories, short essays, plays, fiction, and biography and provides brief summaries pointing out general good points and drawbacks of each for secondary teachers. (JL)

Examining the attitudes and behaviors of his adolescent students in rural Yorkshire, the author finds in them a strange lack of respect for adults, which he attributes to disruptions of consciousness caused by the constant bombardment of pop music and television. Two other authors comment on pp128-30. (SJL)

In four experiments to replicate and extend the findings of Shuell and Keppel (EJ 016 150), "fast" and "slow" learners were brought to a similar learning criterion, with the result that their forgetting curves were parallel. The experiments involved American and Nigerian students in learning word lists and poems. (Author/CM)

In light of declining enrollments and decreasing funding in colleges and universities, humanities curricula should be reorganized to overcome negative student attitudes toward humanities courses. Recounts the successful use of collaborative learning experiences in teaching poetry and suggests the development of interdisciplinary career-option…

Notes how discussing poetry as oral language helps high school students relate poems and imagination to their everyday lives. (RL)

Briefly discusses the appeal of poetry for children and describes some of the ways in which school librarians can develop a poetry collection and enhance students' interest in poetry. Also included is an annotated list of the best poetry collections for students from the 1981 publishing year. (JL)

Discusses the Special Collections at the State University of New York at Buffalo and the role of Charles Abbott in their development. His interest and a serendipitous lack of funds have created an unusual collection containing a Twentieth Century Poetry Collection, James Joyce holographs, and rare book collections. (CHC)

This annotated bibliography of recently published children's books contains sections describing picture books, stories for younger readers, stories for intermediate readers, stories for older readers, poetry, nonfiction, and books of interest to adults. (AEA)

Lists new paperback books, divided according to the following categories: picture books, books for intermediate and for older readers, poetry, and nonfiction. Indicates if and when the original edition was reviewed in this journal. (GT)

The author suggests that the preconscious is the true locus of significant prose because of its greater amount of freedom to gather, compare, and rearrange ideas, and that the ultimate challenge to teachers of composition is to give freedom to their students' preconscious processes. (KC)

Identifies four strategies used to communicate experiences that are beyond expression: silence, qualified expression, poetic expression, and antiexpression. Maintains that, although these strategies violate normal expectations of efficient message transactions, they occasionally succeed remarkably in communicating understanding and thus present a…